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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
Poilievre has such a punchable face. His way of speaking also reeks of debate captain/aspiring career politician from his teenage years. He seems like he was the kind of kid that would tell the teacher that she forgot to give the class homework today.
Yeah Downtown has gotten worse but it's not nearly as bad as the "oh it's total anarchy now! There's shit and needles everywhere!" pearl-clutching crowd. I find these type of statements are usually followed by "I never go downtown anymore I hear it's So DaNgErOuS!!"
The whole world has gone down the right wing rabbit shit hole. From Turkey to the Philippines to the US, it's all reactionary to the inequities of society. The left says it has answers. The right says it has answers. Unfortunately, many people from the generations (boomer, Gen-x) who vote lean to the right and we end up with reactionary right-wing governments and their fuck-you-I-got-mine culture seeping through society. Canada is an outlier probably because our right wing is so fractured, giving the Liberals an easy win every time. However, I fail to see how our lowly PM is somehow responsible for any of these global trends.
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Totally agree with this. I'm not a fan of JT, but I really do believe he's a victim of this online right-wing machine.
He's one of the last "Liberal", "Left-Wing" leaders in any Western government right now. He's become the catalyst and focus of ire by the global rightwing media machine.
Heck, Trump recently called him a "left-wing lunatic"
When has a US president even mentioned a Canadian PM before? We used to laugh at how little the world paid attention to Harper during his tenure.
Let me prefix that I am not a big fan of the guy, but the hate he's getting reminds me similarly to the garbage Obama attacks Obama had to deal with.
Westopher is completely correct, and as I've been saying,
Honda , you're severely diminishing the impact that social media and rightwing online disinformation that has successfully coopted so much of the current discourse.
My Instagram is literally flooded with doofus friends posting anti-vax crap, Trudeau being a fascist, how we live in a Nazi hellhole, Rebel News garbage. These are all relatively new things. If you follow politics in places like India and the Philippines, the issue has blown up immensely over the last few years.
It all started with the Tea Party back in 2008, the right's ridiculous reaction and fomenting of hate due to a black elected president, and brewed heavily for the next 8 years. Fast forward to 2016 and Trump poured gasoline on this problem.
I've always believed its a consorted global effort, a race to the bottom, the haves using populism to watch us eat ourselves apart, all the while enriching themselves as a result.
Naomi Klein has written an excellent book (The Shock Doctrine) that discusses this whole idea, I suggest checking it out:
https://www.amazon.ca/Shock-Doctrine...4092445&sr=8-1